Arthur marshall chambers and thomas smith



(No Model) A. M. CHAMBERS "& T. SMITH.

APPLIANCE FOR LOADING 00KB.

No. 479,556. Patented July 26, 1892.

UNITED STATES A PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR MARSHALL CHAMBERS AND THOMAS SMITH, OF GHAPELTOWN, ENGLAND.

APPLIANCE FOR LOADING COKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,556, dated July 26,1892.

Application filed August 4, I891.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR MARSHALL CHAMBERS and THOMAS SMITH,engineers, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing atChapeltowmin the county of York, England, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Appliances for Loading Coke from Ovens into Wagons, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in appliances for loading cokefrom ovens into wagons, and the object of our improvements is to providemeans by which the coke is automatically and continuously deliveredquickly and without injury from the ovens in which it is burned into thewagons by which it is to be conveyed away. We attain this object by themechanism and appliances illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a front view of our improved apparatus in connectionwith a row of cokeovens. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is atransverse section, on a larger scale, of the traveling platform and itssupports.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Our invention is shown applied to cokeovens in which the coke iswithdrawn from the ovens by mechanism for which Thomas Smith obtained apatent in the United States of America, dated February 24, 1891, and numbered 446,936, for apparatus for extracting coke from ovens; but it maybe applied to coke-ovens from which the coke is withdrawn by hand orother means.

0 is a horizontal platform of plates riveted to the endless chain 72,passing round the drums e e. The drum 6 is driven by a steam-engine U,driving a shaft to, by pulleys and belt to, the. shaft w driving thedrum 6 by toothed wheels M1 The coke is discharged from the plates 0upon the plate or chute r, which delivers it into the inclined endlesschain of carriers or buckets s, which passes around drums y y, the upperone of which 3 is mounted upon the shaft 31 carried in bearings in theframe 2'. A shaft T is mounted upon the frame 2', and carries at one enda pulley t and at the other end a pinion t,

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meshing with a toothed wheel 16 upon a shaft 3 of a drum y. The oppositeend of the shaft 1 carries a toothed wheel 15 for the purposehereinafter set forth.

o designates a drum having curved parti tions 1;, forming buckets aroundthe periphery thereof. The said drum is mounted upon a shaftVin theframed in position to receive the coke from the endless carrier .9. Uponone end of the shaft T is mounted a toothed wheel t meshing with atoothed wheelt on the shaft y The belt a from the pulley u upon the mainshaft u of the engine U passes around the pulley t upon the shaft T,turning it in the direction indicated by the arrow, and by the pinion tand a toothed wheel a driving the shaft g of the carrier 8, whichlatter, through the toothed wheels t and t and shaft T, communicatesmotion to the drum '1).

The direction of rotation of the aforesaid parts is indicated by thearrows in Fig.1, and from an inspection of the drawings it will appearthat the coke is delivered from the upwardly-inclined carrier 8 upon theconcave side of the curved partitions of the drum '0, where it isretained by the concavity of the said partition until the rotation ofthe drum has lowered it very near to the chute or screen it, down whichit passes into the wagon or car Z, running upon rails at m. Thus it willbe seen that the coke is lowered very easily from the upwardly-inclinedcarrier 8 to the screen is by the drum 1;, and the danger of breakingthe coke by falling from the carrier to the screen is entirely obviated.

In Fig. 3 the plates 0 are shown traveling upon angle-irons o 0, formingpart of a longitudinal trough p, fixed in front of the ovens a, intowhich trough the coke falls and is prevented from being scattered. Theplates 0 are bolted or riveted to an endless chain it, which issupported upon rollers p, carried by the frames 00.

By our invention the coke from coke-ovens is very quickly andcontinuously automatically delivered from the ovens into the wagons bywhich it is conveyed away, and great saving is effected in the cost ofso conveying and delivering, as compared with that of the methodsordinarily adopted, While the coke is not liable to injury, and istherefore of greater value.

We are aware that endless traveling platforms have long been used forthe purpose of conveying materials of different kinds from place toplace, and we do not claim, broadly, the use of such traveling platform;but

What We claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

An apparatus of the class herein described, comprising the longitudinaltrough p, fixed in front of a series of coke-ovens, angle-irons 0 0,arranged within the-said trough, the horizontal traveling platform ofplates partly supported upon the angle-irons 0 0 and carried by theendless chain h, anti-friction rollers mounted beneath the saidtraveling platform and partly supporting the latter, the drums overwhich the endless chain passes, the shaft w, geared to one of the saiddrums and also to the steam-engine U, the chute v to conduct the cokefrom the horizontal carrier to the inclined carrier, with theupwardly-inclined carrier to receive the coke from the horizontalplatform of plates, drums over which the said carrier passes, a drum '0,having curved partitions to receive the coke from the inclined carrierand lower it onto the screen 70, the shaft T, geared to the shaft of theupper drum of the inclined carrier, the gear-wheels t and icommunicating motion from the inclined carrier to the drum '0, and theengine U, connected by the belt u? with the shaft '1, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence oftwo witnesses.

ARTHUR MARSHALL CHAMBERS. THOMAS SMITH. Witnesses-z W. SMITH, CHAS.I-IY. SMITH,

Solicitors, Sheflield.

